Full text of G.7.2 Monthly Department Store Sales, Selected Cities and Areas : July 11, 1936

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BOARD or GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
For release in evening papers
Saturday, July 11

July 3, 193^
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DEPARTMENT STORE SALES IN JUNE 1936
Preliminary report
Department store sales were maintained i n June at the r e l a t i v e l y high level
reached i n May. The Board's seasonally adjusted index advanced from 88 percent
of the 1923-1925 average in May to 89 percent i n June.
Total sales in June were 15 percent l a r g e r and i n the f i r s t half of the
year 10 percent larger than i n the corresponding periods of 1935* AH Federal
Reserve d i s t r i c t s showed increases in comparison with l a s t year.
REPORTS BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS
Percentage change
from a year ago
January 1
to
June*
June 30

Number
of
stores
report...

i

n

£

Number
of
cities
included

+15

+10

535

260

+13
+13
+17

+10
+9
+10
+11

56

30
31
15
12

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+11
+24
+13
+11

+10
+11
+11
+10

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+11
+11

+10
+10
+16
+11

Total
Federal Reserve d i s t r i c t s :
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+11

+29

+15

26
57
§
37
39
19
21

91+

26
18
3%
20
19
11
10
34

• June figures preliminary; in most c i t i e s the month had one more business day
t h i s year than l a s t year, and i n June t h i s year there were four Saturdays as
compared with f i v e a year ago.